Where does “kuivahiiva” come from?

kuivahiiva (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuiva, from Proto-Finnic kuiva — dry.

kuivahiiva (Finnish): dry yeast, dried yeast, dehydrated yeast

Definitions

  1. dry yeast, dried yeast, dehydrated yeast

Ancestry of “kuivahiiva”, step by step

kuivahiiva traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kuiva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuivadry; Indicative present connegative form of...
2Proto-Finnickuivadry

via Finnish hiiva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhiivayeast
2Proto-Finnichiivayeast
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